Well, right now one of the great things about looking at the wall to
read the clock and see the time, is that you know that based on the time
of day and the time of year, and where you are, roughly how far through
the actual solar day it is. It's crude, but useful. Just ask a Dairy
Farmer.
Do
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Mark Biggar
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:47:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > : >That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign
> > : >to it if it's undefined. But then it gets a little harder to reason
> > : >about
Larry Wall wrote:
> Yes, that's a convenient escape. But really, arguments from principle
> aside, the underlying question is what someone will see if they look
> at 1.e5, and I suspect most people will see a number with an exponent.
> This is a spot where Ruby violates Least Surprise, at least f
Larry Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:56:35PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> :
> : >: If not a special form, should this work?
> : >:
> : >: my $pi is constant;
> : >: $pi = 3;
> : >
> : >That could be made to work by defining constant to mean you can assign
> : >to it if it's und
On Aug 17, 2005, at 00:29 , Larry Wall wrote:
which gives us these possibilities.
大務big / (perform) duty
Perl6 to people here.
太夢fat, big / dream
Perl6 for the rest of us.
対夢oppose, against, pair / dream
Pugs?
待夢wait / dream
Perl6 to Oreilly ?
滞
Hi,
Yuval Kogman woobling.org> writes:
> So now that the skeptics can see why this is important, on the
> design side I'd like to ask for ideas on how the code serialization
> looks...
>
> sub { $?DOM.document.write("hello world!") }.emit(
> :runtime($browser_autodetect_object),
>
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:24:40PM +, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
> >- closures?
> A subclass of Code, e.g. Bare.
There is no Bare anymore:
Code - Routine
- Block
Thanks,
/Autrijus/
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Autrijus Tang wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:45:52PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
And another question. How will I make Perl6 not do automatic coercion for
me. If I have this sub:
sub date (Int +$year is required, +$month, +$day)
BTW, Pugs supports the ++ syntax, whic
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:03:22AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
: Hurry up and finish. I want to use this language, darnit! And yes, I
: know about pugs, obviously, but for production usage I need less of a
: moving target ;)
Yes, Perl 6 is a moving target--but one of the most bothersome facts
of
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 23:43 -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> But I'd really like to get this stuff done at compile time wherever
> possible. If I write this:
>
>validate( credit_card_number: $number );
>
> it should blow up at compile time, right?
Does that depend on how closed you want Perl 6
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:02:23AM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 23:43 -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
> > But I'd really like to get this stuff done at compile time wherever
> > possible. If I write this:
> >
> >validate( credit_card_number: $number );
BTW, the colon is on t
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:31:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Not only that, but what if what I want is a named constnat undef value?
If we went with "bind once" rather than "write once" semantics then after
my $foo is readonly := undef;
$foo could not be rebound, but saying
my $
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> In other words, you could desugar
>
> sub foo ($a = 1) {...}
>
> to
>
> sub foo ($a) {
> $a = 1 unless exists $a;
> ...
> }
I like this. Can we go for it, at least for this week? :)
Thanks,
/Autrijus/
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:15:23AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > In other words, you could desugar
> >
> > sub foo ($a = 1) {...}
> >
> > to
> >
> > sub foo ($a) {
> > $a = 1 unless exists $a;
> > ...
> > }
>
>
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:24:40 +, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yuval Kogman woobling.org> writes:
> > So now that the skeptics can see why this is important, on the
> > design side I'd like to ask for ideas on how the code serialization
> > looks...
> >
> > sub { $?DOM.docume
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:22:20PM +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote:
> > sub foo { $?DOM.document.write(...) }
> > BEGIN { foo() }; # error, there's no $?DOM object
> ># at compile-time!
>
> Unless you're compiling in the browser ;-)
Which... is possible, and that's
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:15:23AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > In other words, you could desugar
: >
: > sub foo ($a = 1) {...}
: >
: > to
: >
: > sub foo ($a) {
: > $a = 1 unless exists $a;
: > ...
: > }
:
:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:17:51AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: Also, preemptively -- I think the corresponding "delete $a" is insane,
: as it would just lift up the constancy problem one level, defeating the
: no rebinding restriction.
I think in general the only time you're allowed to monkey wi
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:26:00AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Sure. Though it probably also wants to stay as metadata associated
> with the signature, since part of the reason for putting it in
> the signature in the first place is so that optimizers can install
> constants on the caller end, at l
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:36:30AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:26:00AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > Sure. Though it probably also wants to stay as metadata associated
: > with the signature, since part of the reason for putting it in
: > the signature in the first plac
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:36:30AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> BEGIN {
> &foo := a Sub is stub {
> ($a) := &?Internals::GETARGS();
> $a = 1 unless exists $a;
> # real body begins here
> ...
> };
> }
Er, sorry, the ($a) would need a my()
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